Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Lesson
Title/Focus

The Buffalo and Missionaries

Date

December 1, 2015

Subject/Gra
de Level

Social Studies

Time
Duratio
n

10:19-12:19

Unit

Grade 3/4 Multiage

Teacher

Miss. Walker

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the role of stories, history
and culture in strengthening communities and contributing to identity and a sense of
belonging.
-recognize British institutions and peoples as integral parts of Albertas heritage
-recognize how the diversity of immigrants from Europe and other continents has
enriched Albertas rural and urban communities

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta Program of Studies
Voices of Alberta textbook
Learn Alberta

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

Buffalo image
Social Studies Journal

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson
Attention Grabber
Assessment of
Prior Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and
Behaviour

Introduction
Buzzword weekend-if you are wearing green tell me about your
weekend in 5 words.

Time
10 mins

Big 3 classroom Rules1) Be Responsible

2) Be Respectful
3) Be Safe

Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body
Learning Activity
#1

Learning Activity
#2

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Body
Introduce the lap folders
Finish the writing on stone imagestrace in the
black
Glue letter and the stone pictures to the lap
folders
How do you hunt the buffalo?
Take some questions and suggestions
Do you stay in one spot or do you move around?
(If the Buffalo moved, then you would move with
them so you would not stay in one spot) because
if your food moves they you need to move.
Do you hunt so that you can have buffalo for a
long time or for a short time?
Do you use up all of the parts or do you only take
what you need? this is a trick because you use
up the whole buffalo and you use up everything.
There were probably many other ways that many
tribes hunted the buffalo but since we are
studying Alberta, we are only going to learn
about how the people in Alberta used it for.

Time

15 mins

20 mins

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 (Version C)

Learning Activity
#3

Learning Activity
#4

Learning Activity
#5

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_metis/fp_meti
s8.html
We will read over this website together and talk
about some ways that these tribes hunted the
buffalo.
BRAIN BREAK! (5 mins)
On your picture of the buffalo I want you to draw
lines that show what part of the buffalo was used
and what for.
Glue this into your lapbook.
When the Plains people killed a buffalo, they
used every part of it. Nothing was wasted. They
used the hide for tepee coverings, bedding,
clothes, moccasins, and robes. The buffalo hair
was used for rope and halters. The hoofs were
used for rattles. The horns were used to make
dishes and spoons and ladles. From various parts,
they made whips, saddle pads, glues, toys,
drums, belts, stirrups, shields, knife cases, boats,
thread, and of course - FOOD.
Who were the missionaries?
Spirituality is very important to First Nations, but
the Fur Traders thought that this was something
of more of superstition rather than an important
spiritual tradition.
England and France sent over missionaries to
help preserve traditional religion in the forts.
Eventually missionaries began to build schools
and churches to teach at. First Nations would
send their children there hoping to learn
something new.
Over time, FN children were taken away from
their homes and sent to these schools
permanently. They lost their identityby way of
forgetting about their traditions, language and
customs.
Write in your Social Studies journal or draw a
picture of how you would feel to be taken away
from your family.

15 mins

20 mins

10 mins